Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "staring so long at the light, it burns patterns into your eyes as they close"

• Like white light? Or a long low moan that turns into laughing? Or the holes in Jesus' hands?
• I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they are real
• Staring into the pupils of my eyes
• mirror staring into eyes
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• He Would Close His Eyes, and the World Would Burn.
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• U2 Faraway So Close
• you will not keep the attention of plebeians, they only listen with their eyes
• You're so closed minded
• The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
• I will love them all even after they are long gone
• The man who sees through closed eyes
• Stare out into the light
• if you're lucky, they fuse into something bright and astonishing
• Walking with closed eyes
• Why does it take so long to get to sleep?
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to the light
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• Can you see the tension piling on me in waves? Look into my eyes.
• Some kiss with their eyes closed
• Do not look into laser with remaining eye
• because I am lazy and enjoy staring blankly into space (which is also the space where novels come from)
• all lost lights limped on into the limitless dark
• ask me that again and look into my eyes
• When I close my eyes, I see New York
• My life's got rags, my life's got riches. They've all been mixed together for so long it's hard to tell them apart.
• They will love him long after he is gone.
• the way the leaves move, the green light, so green
• So they caught Santa Claus
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• So they caught Saddam Hussein
• "So we have...curry and pubs. City of Culture my arse." - a slightly frantic Birmingham nodermeet (with long words!)
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• Indelibly burned into my memory
• Try not to look into my eyes
• your eyes, my lights
• She opened her eyes, looked at a world made entirely of white light
• His Eyes Are Closed
• Faraway, So Close!
• And when she turned into a man, we were so proud
• It's the cracked ones that let light into the world
• The light from your eyes
• Why would you turn on the near lights to look far away into the darkness?
• A regiment of intellectual ghosts walks the streets of this working class city, casting dignity, reason, and courage into each soul they pass by
• How long must I stay in my pajamas before I turn into Howard Hughes?
• Sometimes I like to write with my eyes closed
• So long, farewell
• So he's dressed a little differently and he has a halo-like light above his head.
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• Staring at the floor pattern in the kitchen
• i have been burning for so long
• So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
• They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
• Live so that they cry when you're born and laugh when you die
• "It gets better" or so they say.
• They did so because they believed they could.
• some people are so poor, all they have is money
• They came together so as to form one whole
• Don't be afraid, you've just got your eyes closed
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• close/open my open/closed eyes
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• So close yet so far away
• Asleep beneath the watchful eyes of pilot lights
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• so close to Paradise
• They live in brow furrows and eye wrinkles.
• When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
• Having someone wrapped around you, looking into your eyes, inches away from your face, smiling the cutest smile in the world and giving you quick little kisses on the nose is the greatest feeling anywhere ever
• Don't stand so close to me
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• My ears are always searching for the best sounds. I try not to let my eyes get locked into a particular sight.
• So I went, into the field of macaroni
• Turn a simple LED into a beautiful bass light show
• Redundancy in DNA
• The long term consequence of putting fish genes into watermelons
• cover your eyes so you don't know the secret
• Staring into a darkened sky
• So this bald girl walked into a bar
• So this one time, God walked into an inn...
• After living a life in darkness, the first steps into the light are the hardest to bear.
• Traffic lights that don't stay green long enough for everyone waiting to get through
• Long March into Idiocy
• Into a featureless face, they carve a smile.
• The ceiling that you are staring at will fall without your eyes to hold it up.
• Close your eyes, I will help you pray
• Not so long ago,
• Been Brown So Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• When left long enough, students will always discuss cartoons they watched as kids
• I didn’t know why it took girls so long to do their makeup until someone showed me how to dismantle the patriarchy with an allen wrench and a roast chicken ballotine.
• Hoosier Daddy? 2: So long, and thanks for all the turkey
• So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
• will my heart be there, where I left it so long ago?
• So that's what they call it nowadays?
• It's been so long since I've known this feeling
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• So long Arthur Miller! Who do I have to look up to now?
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• So they caught George W. Bush
• Why are estate agents so superior, after all they ARE estate agents?
• I want the stars so bright they make me breathless
• I hope they kill me while I'm standing here, so I can die happy.
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
• I'm not going to simplify things just so they can fit inside your mind. You don't deserve that.
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• I wanted to touch him so badly that it made my fingertips burn
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• the light too bright, the day too long
• Burn My Eyes
• If I really loved you, you'd never get so close.
• Close your eyes, hold your breath and jump
• close your eyes
• the smoke of our burned books rises into the sky
• the morning whiteness burns my eyes
• She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
• So Close
• Almost, if I close my eyes
• At night, her eyes closed, she would
• She sat in virginal white, eyes closed, with only her face in rose
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• the ghostly tools that dance behind my closed eyes, you will grasp like hammers
• They Will Burn like Streaks of Gasoline on a Lawn
• Eye contact at a distance
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• how do they feel, those unblinking eyes?
• I followed the light in her eyes around the room, staying within range
• We all know what beautiful eyes are like, what they do to you.
• Our eyes reflect the light of dead suns
• Screaming into the Eye of the Lens (document)
• So while Faust is busy trying to wipe the blood off his face and Shorty's trying to claw his eyes out, I mosey away and try my hand at storming the castle
• One by one we threw our eyes into the sea
• Look into my eyes and tell me
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• Into the light
• A star that shines twice as bright burns for half as long
• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
• On looking into the eyes of a living being
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Never get into a staring contest with a Pikachu
• I was into them after they were hip
• Look not into the light
• Half a circle -- my foray into long lost geometry
• So this one-legged man walks into a bar
• Dance into the Light
• Saving face, losing time, staring off into an alternate reality
• am i an angel flying into the light or a bug flying towards a light bulb?
• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
• Gaily they went down in the lush field a treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a crust of bread into her coat of arms weaving currying the embroidering of silk in summer.
• They Shall Beat Their Plowshares Into Swords
• So A Dinosaur Walks Into a Bar...
• Hands cupped into a half circle, he bent foward to help her catch a light
• multitudes of hungry tongues burn my eyes
• In the long purple evenings when rock n roll from WLAM blurred into night baseball from WCOU
• Fling a light into the future
• follow us into the black, so far that we can't get back
• so that all her children will be adventurers in light
• You, there! Come into the light!
• Are they bleeding all your colours into one?
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• If her secrets spilled from her eyes into his
• So long
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• It hasn't been so long, but
• when the forest burns along the road like god's eyes in my headlights
• Dreams last for so long
• You make a light in the world and you hope someone can still look up from the dust for long enough to see it
• The city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them's shining on you.
• Today the sun set. It burned my eyes.

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